Abstract
THE county of Leicestershire covers an area of 800 square miles of the centre of England, at the summit of drainage between three of the great streams, the Trent, the Severn, and the Midland Ouse. Almost the whole of the county is at least 100 feet above sea-level. A large portion of the surface is between 300 and 500 feet, and Charnwood Forest rises at its highest point to 900 feet, so that Leicestershire is very different from such low-lying level Midland counties as Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, and Huntingdonshire. Half the area of the county is in grass, about one-quarter is under arable cultivation, and there are 20 square miles of woodlands. In Charnwood Forest there are slate and granite, and the sedimentary rocks are represented in the county from the middle of the Palaeozoic to the middle of the Mesozoic series—Carboniferous Limestone, Coal-measures (Permian missed out), Trias, Lias, and Lower Oolite—so that there is every variety of soil. The Flora of Leicestershire, including the Cryptogams. With Maps of the County. Issued by the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society. 372 Pages and 2 Maps. (London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1886.)
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